TRAIN services to Cleveland station have resumed after a fire broke out near the entrance on Wednesday morning.
Detectives are still investigating the cause of the blaze, but witnesses reported seeing flames and smoke coming from a bin near one of the station’s entrances just before 11am.
Police, firefighters and emergency services were called to the scene after black, acrid smoke started filling the station's foyer.
Cleveland fire station officer Rob Onley said there were some delays at the station while the fire was dealt with.
“Through the quick actions of the fire service [the fire] was extinguished and the train was then subsequently allowed to come into the station and people could disembark when it was safe to do so,” he said.
Specialists also provided back-up breathing material for the firefighters.
Shore Street West was closed in both directions after the blaze was extinguished.
A Queensland Rail spokesman said normal services resumed after the station was "briefly evacuated".
"No customers or staff were injured as result of the fire and only minimal damage was sustained by the station building," he said.
Police have cordoned off the immediate area around the fire while officers investigate.
The fire is the second major incident at the station in two years, after a train ran off the rails and plunged over the platform into the station master's office on January 31 last year.
Repair works after the passenger train ploughed through the station toilet block cost $400,000 and were carried out less than a year after the station underwent a $1.2million overhaul.
